Legs (One Wild Wish, #1) Book Release, Giveaway, and Review

Legs by Kelly Siskind is a light hearted book with a nice mix of sexual tension and swoon-worthy moments. The sex scenes are HOT and the book is easy to connect with. Kelly Siskind is such a gifted writer, I love her books and her writing style. Whether this is your first book or your 5th, I promise you it wont be the last book you pick up from this author.

Running into your one-night stand is a special kind of awkward. Competing against him in a wine tasting contest is delicious torment…

On Rachel’s twenty-seventh birthday, she wishes to finally find a rewarding job. What she doesn’t wish is to drink a boatload of wine, sleep with a tattooed bad boy, and drunk email her boss in one glorious, career-ending move. But the fiasco pushes her to pursue a career inspired by her late father’s love of wine: sommelier.

Unfortunately, she’s competing against her infuriating one-night stand, a man as intoxicating as a Pinot Noir.

Two years ago, Jimmy was set to inherit his family winery. Then it got ripped from his grasp. To close that dark chapter of his life, he plans to win a local sommelier contest and use the press to expose his family’s tainted wines.

Jimmy loves studying the streaks of alcohol that cling to a wineglass, known as the wine’s “legs,” but other shapely legs are stealing his focus. Tantalizing legs. Legs that had wrapped around his waist for one wild night. Jimmy, sadly, has a weakness for legs.

The last person I wanted to see walked into the restaurant, and I tensed.

Her frantic gaze was forced to me, and the only three vacant seats. She searched the room in vain, the rounding of her spine a clue she wasn’t thrilled about her options. She looked out the way she came, squeezed her eyes, then squared her shoulders and marched toward me.

Part of me—the lower half—wanted to pin her to the wall with my thighs while I hitched that proper little skirt higher. The other part hoped she’d wandered into the wrong place. Not because our night together had been bad, or the fact that she’d disappeared without a trace. No. The thing that had the tendons in my neck bunching was remembering how good it all was. Too good and too much fun, and I’d imagined rounds two and three and four ad nauseam. But rounds always ended in a knockout punch.

This girl was nothing but trouble.

She paused at the table, drew in a long breath, mumbled something as she exhaled, then glared at the seat beside me and the ones across. She chose beside, probably to face the room.

The only reason we’d hooked up two weeks ago was because there were no names and no strings. She’d admitted how hard it would be for her to relax, how awkward she’d feel afterward. The relaxing part I took care of with one brush of my lips. The awkward was still alive and kicking.

What went down between us couldn’t happen again. Distractions over the next two months weren’t an option, and repeat affairs led to feelings, and feelings led to promises, and promises were nothing but lies dressed up to seduce. Not an outcome I was keen to revisit. Still, I couldn’t ignore her anxiety, as long as she wasn’t here because of me.

I leaned toward her. “You’re the last person I expected to see.”

She squished her lithe body farther from mine. “Kind of coincidental, don’t you think? Did you follow me?”

“I got here before you. If anyone is stalking, it’s you tailing me.”

Indignation colored her cheeks. “I didn’t follow you. I saw a flyer and thought the contest looked interesting, but you obviously read it, too. If I’d known you’d be here”—aggravation laced her hushed tone—“I’d never have shown up.”

Her harsh words had me fisting my hands, or maybe it was how tempting the line of her neck looked, that column of tanned skin shifting as she swallowed. But she was right: having a diversion wouldn’t help my plan. “Then we’re on the same page.”

“Excuse me?”

“Since we’re both here for the contest, we can pretend that night never happened.”

Her face fell, but a beat later, she said, “Good,” nothing but ice in her voice.

I followed with “Great.”

She spat, “Fine.”

So much for stamping out the awkward.

Review:Oh Rachel! The book opens to a extremely lonely, sex deprived women. Her desperation just screams from the pages. She has a long history of making bad decisions but Rachel is ready for a change. On her birthday, Rachel makes a big wish and the power outage that follows leaves her with the hope that change is on its way.

One thing I didn’t like about Rachel’s character was her reasoning behind not expressing her feelings and starting a relationship with Jimmy. According to her logic, she’s fearful to take that next step because she doesn’t think Jimmy wants a relationship. But it’s completely obvious that he does. I think the root behind her hesitation is because she was hurt terribly by an ex bad-boy boyfriend she dated a long time ago and she’s not able to move past that. Well, that and she doesn’t think her dead father would approve. Okay, some of this reasoning I get. You get burned once, you are a little hesitant to jump back in. But come on! I desperately wanted her to take a chance.

Jimmy is a complex character who has a rough exterior but a huge heart. This bad boy screams sex and has the confidence to back it up. But he’s a mystery and his past has left him broken and unsure of who to trust.

I really enjoyed how this book was laid out. Kelly Siskind doesn’t give you everything up front, instead creating a mystery that’s both exciting and fun. With each chapter, another layer unfolds and you learn a little more about who Rachel and Jimmy are.

When we finally find out what happened between Jimmy and his father, ouch! I don’t blame him for his feelings. I’ll be honest, as I was reading what his father had done, I noticed my thoughts mirrored Jimmy’s.

But the way Jimmy lashes out at Rachel is ridiculous. Blaming her for things she had nothing to do with.. his thought process didn’t even make sense.I think Rachel let him get off way too easily and the ending of the book felt too tidy. Like everything ended in this nice bow but instead of feeling happy, I felt cheated. Maybe if Jimmy had some grand gesture it would have made the ending better. Now don’t get me wrong, it was romantic and sweet what he did at the end of the book. But Rachel had already forgiven him by then. I think I would have liked it more if he had done that prior to her forgiving him. But that’s just me. I think most of you will enjoy the ending of this book.

This book was not one favorites from Kelly Siskind. But there is no denying her talent in creating sexual tension. Some of the terminology she uses, I just didn’t get. What does it mean when someone “oozed dude”? But in the end I enjoyed parts of this book but didn’t love all of it. I enjoyed reading the book and it is great for those looking for a steamy romance novel. But I’m doubtful I’ll read the book more than once.

Author Bio:Kelly is the author of CHASING CRAZY, MY PERFECT MISTAKE, A FINE MESS, and HOOKED ON TROUBLE, the latter three being part of her Over the Top series. A small-town girl at heart, she moved from the city to open a cheese shop with her husband in northern Ontario. When she’s not neck deep in cheese or out hiking, you can find her, notepad in hand, scribbling down one of the many plot bunnies bouncing around in her head. She’s also an incurable romantic, devouring romance novels into the wee hours of the morning.